SOLVED Kliché mini not properly bypassed

Petethefuzz

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Hi guys! My kliché mini is acting weird. The LED is always half “on”. When the pedal is bypassed the gain knobs still slightly affect the signal so it’s not truly bypassed. When bypassed I can manipulate the led strength by turning the output knob on the pedal !?Can’t see any thing shorting. Could it be a bad switch or maybe incorrect wiring? My 5. kit so I am no pro… any help would be 👍
 

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Did you use soldering paste on you breakout board-3PDT switch? Sometimes it creates "a short" or some resistance that's why you get a "half-on" LED. The problem is that it may have leaked into the space between the 3pdt and the board.

Are you sure you are using the correct breakout board? https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb361/
I soldered the switch to the breakout board. Not sure what you mean with the paste though. I can see that solder connecting between the two parts could be an issue. Hard to tell and probably even harder to remove all the solder again. I bought it as a kid from musikding.de. The breakout board looks kind of generic.
 
I soldered the switch to the breakout board. Not sure what you mean with the paste though. I can see that solder connecting between the two parts could be an issue. Hard to tell and probably even harder to remove all the solder again. I bought it as a kid from musikding.de. The breakout board looks kind of generic.

Yeah, hate to say it but that breakout board won’t work. Need this one:


If you can, desolder the board off the switch and just wire it without the breakout.
 
Thank you so much guys. I’ll just contact musikding.de. I’ve had quite a lot of thing missing from there kits recently but they are always super helpful. Just sucks that it takes around 10 days in the mail… well at least I know whats wrong and maybe I can desolder the sucker. I’ll give it a go.
 
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